We often hear from children who participate in FeederWatch either at home or at school. Many schools, as well as families who home school their children, use FeederWatch as part of the curriculum. Many parents and grandchildren use FeederWatch to teach their children and grandchildren about birds. We decided to dedicate a web page to all our young FeederWatchers.

Young FeederWatchers featured

Some young FeederWatchers can be found in the Featured FeederWatcher section of our web site. Read about Aubrey Mitchell, who used FeederWatch as part of 4-H and as a result was selected to represented her state in the wildlife category at the 2005 National 4-H Congress, and Madison Griffin, who took charge of FeederWatching in her family.

Graduate student helps middle schoolers FeederWatch

The National Science Foundation's Graduate Teaching Fellows program (NSF GK-12) at the University of Maine places graduate students in K-12 science and technology classes to enhance the level of interest and quality. Students from four Maine schools participated in Project FeederWatch under the guidance of graduate student Brent Horton, who also showed students how birds are banded. Learn more about this joint project in the Spring 2005 issue of BirdScope.

Monty Moose visits Lab

Monty, a stuffed Moose from Mrs. Buckhout's class at Nestor Elementary School in British Columbia, Canada, visited the Lab in February 2004. He helped fill feeders and posed for pictures through FeederWatch's FeederCam. Read more about this exciting visit.

Matthew in Cottage Grove, Wisconsin

According to Matthew's mother, "Matt wanted to share this drawing of some of the birds we had visiting our feeders and suets during the FeederWatch Project." Click here to see a pop-up window displaying Matt's drawing. Mom helped out with some of the bird labels.

Monroe Elementary School in Monroe, Connecticut

Nancy Zorena, a third grade teacher, sent us these drawings from her students as they participated in FeederWatch. Leonardo drew the cardinal, Kailea the Blue Jay, and Helen the chickadee.

Counting birds in middle school

The Lab of Ornithology has developed a middle school science curriculum called BirdSleuth. Although the curriculum was developed for middle school age students, some teachers and homeschoolers have adapted the curriculum for other age levels). The curriculum is designed to give students experience with the entire scientific process: observing birds carefully, collecting data, asking their own questions, drawing conclusions through research and observation, and publishing their results. Learn more.